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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (34880)	3/5/2014 1:52:42 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

>> It's a bad idea from a budgetary perspective to let individuals decide when and how much they should be paid. Unless there is a properly functioning market, in which case competition will be a limiting factor against abuse. But having a single government payer is always going to degenerate to a worse situation. Because government is always going to run out of money and they're going to dictate lower fees to the point providers are not reasonably paid. The problem is you can't have a properly functioning market under this tri-cornered arrangement of provider, patient and insurer unless the patient is paying for the insurance and can see wasteful spending reflected in his own costs. This is why the co-op arrangement has a lot of appeal to me.